Mini Solar Systems Could Form Around Planetary Objects
Written on 4:51 PM by FreshelStar
Our solar system could have its own "mini-me" floating in the vast reaches of space.
That's the theory being proposed by a team led by a University of Toronto astronomer, whose latest research reveals that planetary nurseries could exist not only around stars, but also around planet-size objects about a hundred times less massive than our sun.
The work focused on newly formed planetary mass objects, or planemos—objects with about the same masses as planets that do not orbit stars—as envisioned by this artist's conception.
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